Anton Chigurh: What's the most you ever lost on a coin toss?
Gas Station Proprietor: Sir?
Anton Chigurh: The most. You ever lost. On a coin toss.
Gas Station Proprietor: I don't know. I couldn't say.
[Chigurh flips a quarter from the change on the counter and covers it with his hand]
Anton Chigurh: Call it.
Gas Station Proprietor: Call it?
Anton Chigurh: Yes.
Gas Station Proprietor: For what?
Anton Chigurh: Just call it.
Gas Station Proprietor: Well, we need to know what we're calling it for here.
Anton Chigurh: You need to call it. I can't call it for you. It wouldn't be fair.
Gas Station Proprietor: I didn't put nothin' up.
Anton Chigurh: Yes, you did. You've been putting it up your whole life, you just didn't know it. You know what date is on this coin?
Gas Station Proprietor: No.
Anton Chigurh: 1958. It's been traveling twenty-two years to get here. And now it's here. And it's either heads or tails. And you have to say. Call it.
Gas Station Proprietor: Look, I need to know what I stand to win.
Anton Chigurh: Everything.
Gas Station Proprietor: How's that?
Anton Chigurh: You stand to win everything. Call it.
Gas Station Proprietor: Alright. Heads then.
[Chigurh removes his hand, revealing the coin is indeed heads]
Anton Chigurh: Well done.
[the gas station proprietor nervously takes the quarter with the small pile of change he's apparently won while Chigurh starts out]
Anton Chigurh: Don't put it in your pocket, sir. Don't put it in your pocket. It's your lucky quarter.
Gas Station Proprietor: Where do you want me to put it?
Anton Chigurh: Anywhere not in your pocket. Where it'll get mixed in with the others and become just a coin. Which it is.
[Chigurh leaves and the gas station proprietor stares at him as he walks out]

I den gripande och nervkittlande filmen ’No Country for Old Men’ från 2007, får vi följa en intensiv katt-och-råtta-lek genom ögonen på en jägare som snubblar över en väska med två miljoner dollar vid en misslyckad knarkuppgörelse. Denna film, regisserad av bröderna Coen, är en mästerlig berättelse om girighet, öde och moralens gränser. Javier Bardem levererar en oförglömlig prestation som den kylige yrkesmördaren Anton Chigurh, vars metodiska och obevekliga jakt på väskan blir filmens mörka hjärta. Hans iskalla leverans av filmcitatet, ’What’s the most you ever lost on a coin toss?’, sätter tonen för en film där varje val har ödesdigra konsekvenser. Tommy Lee Jones spelar den eftertänksamma sheriffen Ed Tom Bell, vars reflektioner om rättvisa och ondska väver samman filmens olika trådar. ’No Country for Old Men’ är inte bara en film; det är en upplevelse som stannar kvar långt efter att eftertexterna rullat klart, och en påminnelse om att de mest minnesvärda filmerna ofta är de som vågar utforska mörkret inom oss. Med sin strama regi, stjärnspäckade ensemble och ikoniska filmcitat, är ’No Country for Old Men’ en film som varje filmälskare bör se och uppskatta.